Apple CEO Tim Cook, who topped the list of highest-paid CEOs last year, received significantly less for 2012, taking home just $4.2 million in total compensation. George Stahl has details.

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... the ... hello welcome to miss out ... on Jethro go when stocks were going to get into Apple their chief executives receive discounts ... compensation for this year ... at just four point one seven million you might think that's a lot but given he received ... about three hundred and seventy eight million last year ... has cut a significant drop ... join us for the top is are all everything ... technology editor George Stahl ... said George ... I'm Apple CEOs received four point one seven million ... dollars in salary and bonus why is this the big decline this year ... well that's because link you would be keen CEO began as a special one-time ... stock award of one million ... shares of restricted free steak and restricted stock ... which ... it gets goes into effect over time he gets half of it in five years twenty sixteen he gets the other half in twenty twenty one but the value of the stock at that time ... was about three hundred and seventy dollars ... making that package worth three hundred and seventy million but today I mean that the giving of on the right and in in in in in in with the stock Pauline recently it's still way above that there's an incidence is just below five hundred dollars now so ... you know they even that ... award if he got Lincolnshire ... aam ... is is worth more now than it was when he richly diet ... having said that ... because it's like was the whale and we'll figure out compensation according to ICC rules ... he gets he gets labeled as having a total compensation last year ... of a bath read and seventeen million because the stock were meaning ... that this year's total social purity ... the fashion and values look puny in comparison last year with puny in comparison with the other executives that were named in his corporate filing ... we see Peter Oppenheimer the chief financial officer ... getting almost seventy million dollars the sea Bob Mansfield the hardware chief ... getting eighty five point five million these are these are significant numbers for the rather Executive I only see Apple to this periodic Lee where ... they eat every couple years will highlight some key executives and give them a big stock award ... this year she said its chief financial officer of the one and Bob Mansfield and that's inching case because its ... main stock actually retired in May ... and some of his restricted stock awards that he had bested when he retired ... however when Apple had been little management shuffle in September he actually came back to Apple ... and and actually started receiving a salary again it's cool to the nuclear file is exactly how much said eighty five million reflects ... his name retirement how much of it reflects is new pay package but ... the point is Apple ... does like to compensate their executives they feel are key members of the team list are adding to the software ... on exact received a huge stock award and and we see this from time time company saute some onions and Matthew my hand on onthe she can get seventy million the CFO Eesti going to the hurricane ... three hundred eighty million dollars the CEO last year ... pretax a fifty percent were fixing the fiscal cliff ... I'm taking it to bless our bottom in their ... forties time words were done about the warrior but I think he's he would like to have did these numbers than to play around with ... silence about Europe and the heel shaping the just going back to Apple is who wasn't named in either filings on executive who didn't get a ... massive pay packages that maybe you wouldn't expect longer will I think we're overlooking the sea we get since he tells about Scott ... Forstall who who was one of their teens ex who left ... earlier this year of made that that management ... I shuffled and then we just repartee was in charge of the match private project that that that ... aam was unsuccessful but that it with its launch ... so aam was seen in magazines he tells about what he might've done on his way out of of Apple but there is no D tells about that we did go ... you know it we did see the D tells of the others and has not been ... for Dickerson well George thank you so much that they can get this ... and please make sure to read more on this developing story when it comes to Apple's the compensation in the Wall Street Journal in the end of this Datacom ... thank you so much ...